CASA PAI ROGERIOCarapicuíba/SPPontos cantados and instruments
The role of pontos cantados and instruments in giras, without reproducing lyrics.
Pontos cantados
Teaching of a house or traditionAccording to popular sources, pontos cantados serve to greet the presence of the spirits, firm their strength during the works and involve those present, helping mediums concentrate.
Belief / interpretationThe site does not publish ponto lyrics, for copyright reasons and because they vary by house.
Instruments
Teaching of a house or traditionIn many houses there are atabaques and other percussion instruments. Some Umbanda terreiros use only clapping and singing. There is no single rule.
Song, accompaniment and diversity
Teaching of a house or traditionIn one tradition, the engoma and the songs are part of the gira's organization. Another tradition reports keeping pontos cantados without percussion instruments. That is why religious singing and the atabaque should not be treated as an obligatory combination in all Umbanda.
Documented historyThe institutions' pages are sources about the practice they themselves present. The description of musical functions is rewritten here; lyrics, melodies, recordings, images of scores and transcriptions were not imported. Material available to listen to on another site does not, for that reason, have automatic authorization for republication.